{"nrhp_refnum":"90001636","name":"Yoder Mill","other_names":["Renninger Mill"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"Yoder Rd. at Oysterville Cr., Pike Township","address_restricted":false,"city":"Pikeville","county":"Berks County","state":"PA","lat":40.39718845150006,"lon":-75.72112502671621,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1990-11-08","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Industry","Engineering","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two and one-half story frame gristmill on Yoder Road at the eastern edge of Pikeville, Berks County, Pennsylvania, with a stuccoed stone tenant house and associated water courses. The mill was rebuilt in 1885 after a fire.","why_significant":"The mill is significant for its combination of millstone and roller milling machinery, including two early hurst frames with wooden gearing and an unusual sectional roller mill for rolled oats. Its frame construction is unusual among Berks County mills, which are mostly masonry, and it is locally important as a merchant mill that influenced the siting of the village of Pikeville.","narrative":"Yoder Mill is a two and one-half story frame gristmill on Yoder Road at the eastern edge of Pikeville, Berks County, Pennsylvania, set on a stone basement and clad in painted horizontal wood siding. The site traces to a mill built by George Schall in 1796, and the present building was rebuilt in 1885 after a fire. The mill is important for its combination of French buhr millstones and roller mills, along with two large hurst frames with wooden spur gears that rank among the largest in Berks County mills. It also holds a Sectional Roller Mill with Sifter Corrugation, patented in 1883, which processed rolled oats and was not found in other surveyed county mills. Its upper floors are of frame construction, unusual in a county where most surviving mills are masonry. A stuccoed stone tenant house stands beside it. The mill operated as a merchant mill until 1948.","period_of_significance":"c 1796 to 1939","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":null,"criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Closed as a mill in 1948; owners have added parts from other mills in hopes of future restoration as a working gristmill; the building is generally in need of repair.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:38.063961-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/90001636.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/90001636/d697c552a0-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/90001636/d697c552a0-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Hshuvaeva","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Yoder_Mill_01.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Hshuvaeva</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Yoder_Mill_01.JPG"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"83002218","name":"Oley Township Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/pennsylvania/oley-township-historic-district-83002218/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71992408","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoder_Mill","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8054280"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/berks-county/yoder-mill-90001636/"}